Musician

Change is always a little bit strange.

I find myself being attracted to dudes all the time. I'm like, 'Wow, that's a beautiful man.' There's no shame in it; that's how I feel.

I'm a pretty good drummer. I'm pretty good at guitar, bass and piano. I can play accordion; I'm not virtuoso. I've played cello before. My sister played it, and I know how to play it, but I'm not the best. Violin is kind of the same thing.

I've never considered myself a lyricist, but I have stuff to say.

Luckily, my wife is amazing. She's one of the few people in my life I'm completely honest with. I've told her everything about my past. She knows me inside and out. There's no secrets at all.

I used to watch the Broadway 'Les Miz' and study it.

I think, for me, one of the biggest things that I struggle with is keeping the excitement up when writing a song. A lot of times, I'll get pretty frustrated early on.

I seriously love Cleveland. It's a great city.

There's so much music from Led Zeppelin that I think I overlooked when I was a kid because I didn't understand it, so now to revisit it at an older age, I have a deeper appreciation for it.

I'm so excited for 30. I hear it's OK. I'll probably do the same stuff, but I'll be more comfortable being who I am.

My favorite electric guitar would have to be my Duesenberg. I've named her 'Dolores,' and she sings like an operatic menace.

My capacity for wanting to create has never faltered. If anything, it's gained momentum.

I had only heard about Fall Out Boy a couple months before we contacted him. I heard 'Saturday' and 'Grand Theft Autumn' and thought the lyrics were smart and the singer was insanely talented.

It never came into question, taking the name away or changing it. Panic! has always symbolised some form of excitement that I couldn't get elsewhere.

Synthesizers were looked at as stealing the soul of music, but then there were these new bands who used it to contradict that idea.

I've always been comfortable in my own skin - sometimes a little too comfortable, which in turn makes other people uncomfortable.

I was gonna be a cosmetologist. I didn't really want to. I wanted to be in a band. It kind of worked out.

I have no problem with people illegally downloading stuff. I'm not going to drive hard into 'You should buy my stuff,' because really, it's inevitable. If you like a song, you're going to download it for free. I have no problem with that.

With an older generation, there's some weight carried with the Beatles. There's almost like an untouchable, god-like force field around them.

There are bands like Imagine Dragon, Grouplove, and fun. who have come along and shifted the way that rock can sound.